Riobard, love reading your accounts of times gone by. I never heard of the Copper Mines Hospital before. Where exactly was this hospital? Are there traces of this hospital evident now? Thanks, Margaret ONeill East Taunton, Massachusetts Sent from Xfinity Mobile App ------ Original Message ------ From: Riobard O' Dwyer via To: beara@rootsweb.com Sent: October 24, 2015 at 4:30 PM Subject: Re: [BEARA] Olden days in Beara,(Continued). See above. Riobard. On 24 October 2015 at 21:25, Riobard O' Dwyer <bearariobard@gmail.com> wrote: > In the tough times during the days of the Depression in the States, > some Beara women there had to work in houses for nothing but their > food in order to stay alive. It reminds me of the tough olden days at > home in Beara. It was said that during the Famine, a woman called Red > (haired) Mary drew stones in a basket on her back when the then "New > Road" from Ardgroom to Eyeries was being made. Workers in the > construction of that road got just some meal as payment for their > labour. Times have surely changed. High up in the mountain over the > beautiful Glenbeg Lake in Ardgreoom, and close to the also beautiful > Glenmore Lake in Co. Kerry (which is overlooked by the top of the > well-known and winding Healy Pass on the Cork/Kerry border), there > lived a family of O'Sullivan Keaghs. These O'Sullivans used bring > loads of seaweed on their backs from Ardgroom Harbour for almost two > miles until they reached Glenbeg Lake, and then they had to haul the > seaweed on their backs for a half a mile up the side of the hill to > their little potato garden in a place known as Cluher. I walked up the > side of that hill with Joan's 1st cousin Connie one time to see what > was on top. There we found the remains of two little "houses" in which > there lived two families of O'Sullivan Craths (or McGrath). There were > the remains of a small dried-up stream on the other side of the > "houses"/cabins, and beside that were the remains of two little potato > ridges. Three men and five women and children had lived there before > the Famine. By 1851, the "houses"/cabins were empty, and there was no > more trace of the poor people themselves. Now, whether they died > somewhere in the hills, or maybe got to the States in the "coffin > ships", or maybe drowned and sank to the depths of the Atlantic Ocean > is open to surmise. And then, back to Claonach, Reentrisk, in the > Allihies Parish. A woman there, Ellen, was paralysed by a puck from a > cow. Her son, Con, placed his mother in a big basket and carried her > on his back over a steep hill to the Copper Mines Hospital. Those were > some of the times that were in Beara in the many, many days gone by. > Riobard. -- Riobard (O'Dwyer) ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BEARA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message